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What Is a Privilege Escalation Attack? Types & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Carberp Carberp , a Trojan designed for stealing credentials, has exploited multiple Windows vulnerabilities, including CVE-2010-3338 and CVE-2008-1084 , to escalate privileges. The affected servers included JIRA, GitLab, and Confluence, which were all internally acceptable. Read about privileged access management software next.

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Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

Krebs on Security

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. In 2010, the hottabych_k2 address was used to register the domain name dedserver[.]ru Vpn-service[.]us

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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

Securing all those new cloud environments and connections became a job for cybersecurity companies. Gartner played a big role in the development of cloud security terminology, coining the term “Cloud Workload Protection Platform” in 2010 to describe a tool used for safeguarding virtual machines and containers.

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What Is Cloud Workload Protection? Ultimate Guide

eSecurity Planet

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. Cloud workloads are everything needed to run an application in the cloud, such as databases, containerized environments, and the application itself.

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VulnRecap 3/4/24 – Ivanti, Ubiquiti, AppLocker Under Attack

eSecurity Planet

All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. The problem: A Spanish researcher detected malicious URL redirects on a number of commercial and university websites, including Yellow Pages Canada, MIT, and Purdue, as well as government sites for Texas, Virginia, and Spain.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Founded: 2010. Zscaler made our top web gateways list and received a mention for its zero trust efforts too. Headquarters: Clearwater, Florida.